Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394747097
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Book Synopsis The Words by : Jean-Paul Sartre
Download or read book The Words written by Jean-Paul Sartre and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1981-04-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Paul Sartre's famous autobiography of his first ten years has been widely compared to Rousseau's Confessions. Written when he was fifty-nine years old, The Words is a masterpiece of self-analysis. Sartre the philosopher, novelist and playwright brings to his own childhood the same rigor of honesty and insight he applied so brilliantly to other authors. Born into a gentle, book-loving family and raised by a widowed mother and doting grandparents, he had a childhood which might be described as one long love affair with the printed word. The Words explores and evaluates the whole use of books and language in human experience.